Slashes in plain text email causing send failure

Question

A particular mail server I'm dealing with has rejected the sending of a plain text email with a few forward and backslashes in it. It's possible it's confusing these with something else.

The email is simply a contact form on a website, so it's a blurb of text written by someone.

What's the best method for escaping or doing otherwise to prevent issues like this?

I could just strip out all the slashes, but that seems a little crude.

Answer 1

Have you tried escaping the slashes, either as HTML-encoded characters or just as double-slashed:-

A slash is you! \\ //